Hamilton Maccabe MEREWETHER MC

MEREWETHER, Hamilton Maccabe

Service Number: Q71003
Enlisted: 1 November 1940
Last Rank: Major
Last Unit: Royal Australian Artillery
Born: Sydney, New South Wales, 25 May 1896
Home Town: Clayfield, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Grazier
Died: Illness, Pullenvale, Queensland, 2 August 1986, aged 90 years
Cemetery: Mount Thompson Memorial Gardens & Crematorium, Queensland
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World War 1 Service

18 Jun 1917: Honoured Military Cross, While serving with the Royal Field Artillery (British Army)

World War 2 Service

25 Jul 1940: Promoted Australian Army (Post WW2), Captain, Royal Australian Artillery
1 Nov 1940: Involvement Major, Q71003
1 Nov 1940: Enlisted
1 Nov 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Major, Q71003
9 May 1946: Discharged

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Biography contributed by Sharyn Roberts

Hamilton Maccabe MEREWETHER was born on 25th May, 1896 in Sydney

His parents were Henry Alfred Mitchell MEREWETHER and Edith MacCABE who married in 1890 in Sydney

Hamilton served as a Lieutenant with the British Army in WW1 from 1915 to 1919 & was promoted to Captain - he was with the Royal Field Artillery (Special Reserves) attached to the 97th Battery

The London Gazette (18th June, 1917)  - he is awarded the Military Cross & was then serving in the Royal Field Artillery - no further details known

He maried Ruth Emilie Southey WILSON in 1928 at St Aubans Church in Quirindi, NSW

He enlisted for WW2 on 1st November, 1940 and served as a Lieutenant with the Citizens Military Forces - he was promoted to Captain on 25th July, 1940 from the R & O with regimental seniority to Docks Officer, Sydney Docks, Control Attachment

He was discharged on 9th May, 1946 - posting at Discharge 3 M.C. GRP

Hamilton died on 2nd August, 1986 in Pullenvale, Queensland aged 90 years and was cremated at Mt. Thompson Memorial Gardens, Queensland

His brother Christopher Maccabe MEREWETHER served in the Royal Australian Navy

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